“In a period of great instability, fierce conflicts and intense international realignments, in a time when the struggle “over altars and hearths” becomes existential for entire nations, the defense pillar of our own nation, the hard shell of our homeland, the Its Armed Forces absolutely ensure national sovereignty, erecting walls of strong deterrence on land, sea and air against any threat, being always and forever ready to impose the will of the nation if the occasion calls for it,” he assures the head of GETHA, General Konstantinos Floros, in his agenda on the occasion of tomorrow’s celebration of Armed Forces Day, which coincides with the Entry of the Mother of God, their patron.

“We are ready and face our fate, with faith but also with determination, with courage and with prudence, remaining unshakable in our positions on the ramparts, ready to honor the weapons and the sacred, as history expects and demands of us, the nation and our ancestors, but also the Greek people, so that whenever we need to protect the homeland”, he adds.

The head of GEETHA thoroughly refers to the contribution of the Armed Forces to the nation’s struggles for its survival and well-being – from ancient times to its most recent history (including the last mention of the fact that “we defended ourselves with our blood, the , the same-tongued, the same-minded and the like-minded” in the martyred Cyprus) – pointing out that “it is priceless, lasting and eternal translated into bloody struggles, untold sacrifices and moments of greatness and glory that shaped a tradition of martial virtue of unsurpassed historical depth and majestic magnitude” .

“We are proud of them (including the Greek warriors) in both the good and bad moments of history. We are proud of them because of them we exist today. We are blessed to lean on such heroic traditions and relics, that we can drink and quench our thirst from such intoxicating yarns. Our predecessors in arms, when the time and the historical moment came, crushed ideologies and revisionisms, crushed entire empires, amazed humanity with their bravery and made the word “Greek” synonymous with self-denial and courage and the struggle “over sacrifices” and hearths”. The struggles they gave then clearly illuminate the Avenue of Honor and Debt that we must and are obliged to walk, if the call of history defines it that way”, emphasizes Mr. Floros.

“The work produced by the Armed Forces is unsurpassed, it is unique. It is a project that gives birth to and offers the good of national security against external threats. It is a work inextricably linked and interwoven with the freedom, independence, integrity and dignity of Greece and of every Greek citizen”, underlines the head of GEETHA.

Regarding the events of the last four years, he notes:

– The acquisition of new weapon systems, ensuring and modernizing to the maximum extent possible the ones we already have.

– The rational reorganization of our structures.

– The upgrading of our infrastructure in areas of increased strategic importance, such as Crete and Alexandroupolis, with the design of new naval stations and military airports.

– Recruitment of executives.

– The upgrading of existing and the building of new alliances and partnerships at the level of defense diplomacy, with almost all our Balkan neighbors, but also with important Arab countries, as well as with Israel, of course and of course with our strategic partners, the USA and France.

– Their social contribution by characteristically saying that “wherever and whenever the homeland needed us, regardless of the difficulties and the nature of the events, we were, are and will be there”.

“Officers, non-commissioned officers, non-commissioned officers, soldiers, sailors, soldiers, national guards and civilian personnel of the Armed Forces, this is exactly our legacy, this is exactly our sacred heritage, this is exactly our destiny. To be the sleepless guards of the homeland and the nation”, concludes Mr. Floros